Ruben Fleischer (“Zombieland”) is helming from a script by former Los Angeles Police Dept. officer Will Beall.

Cranston will portray Max Kennard, a laconic LAPD officer from Texas who enforces the law ambitiously. The “Breaking Bad” star also recently booked a role in Ben Affleck’s hostage-rescue thriller “Argo” at Warner Bros., as Variety first reported Tuesday.

Project is based on the Los Angeles Times’ seven-part series “Tales From the Gangster Squad,” to which Warner acquired the rights two years ago. The articles, penned by Paul Lieberman, chronicled the LAPD’s struggle with increasing crime and corruption in the 1940s by forming the Gangster Squad to keep East Coast organized crime figures out of Los Angeles.

Cranston, who’s repped by UTA, is currently filming New Line’s “Rock of Ages” and Sony’s “Total Recall.”